-One message Life is trying to express to its players is the importance of family planning, and this is reflected in the extra seats in your station wagon. It also shows that having children could end up being chance.

-Landing on events is all chance but important real-life decisions, such as buying a house, getting married and getting a job, are mandatory. Although these aren't mandatory in real life, the must-do status in the game stresses the importance of each event in ones life.


-Other choices in the game you have are which literal path to take, I saw this as a figurative interpretation of the common comparison to a path and life-choices.

-The variety of events on different locations across the board are equivalent to the choices one might make on a day-to-day basis.